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D. FRANK. METALBBDSTBAD.

No. 572,2531 Patented Deo. 1, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID FRANK, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN TROUNSTINE, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

METAL BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,253, dated December 1, 1896.

Application iiled September 2, 1896. Serial No. 604,618. (No model.)

in metal bedsteads; and it consists in the novel construction hereinafter described and claimed, applicable to the head or foot fram es of the bed or to both said head and foot frames.

The object of the invention is to provide a new construction aifording means within the head or foot frame for supporting an ornamental frame inclosing a mirror or picture, the whole producing an attractive bedsteadframe of a very desirable character.

The invention will be more fully understood from the detailed description hereinafter presented, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the headframe of a metal bedstead embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged front elevation, partly broken away, of a detached portion of same; and Fig. 3 is a vertical section of same on the dotted line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawings, A A respectively denote the upper and lower main transverse rails or bars of the main frame, and B B the corner or end parts to which said rails A A are secured by the cast boxes O. Above the upper rail A is the ornamental brass rail D and its direct supports E.

The upper and lower rails A A are connected by the vertical rails or posts F, whose ends are secured to the rails A A by means of the cast boxes G,correspondin g with the boxes C above 'referred to.

Between the two inner vertical rails or posts F are secured the ornamental bar-frame II and ornamental mirror or picture frame I, the former being composed of the vertical bar a, the horizontal bar b crossing said vertical bar and the upper and lower curved encompassing-bars c c and CZ d. The upper ends of the vertical bar a. and curved bars c c are secured in the cast box e. The lower ends of the vertical bar a and curved bars d d are secured together to the lower rail A by means of the castbox f. The adjoining portions of the vertical bar a and transverse bar b aresecured in the cast box g, and the outer lateral ends of the transverse bar b and curved bars c c and CZ d are secured together and to the iniddle posts E by the cast boxes h.

The upper rail A at its middle portion is curved upward, as indicated at J, and has at the apex of this u pwardly-curved portion the cast box i, which is directly in line with the cast box e at the apex of the bar-frame II. The boxes 1'. e correspond with one another, and each is formed with the recess j and rear extension lo, whereby said lugs are adapted to receive between them the mirror or picture frame I, whose opposite edges will be held within said recess j and against said rear extensions k, as more fully shown in Figs. 2 and 3, by the screws m held in the boxes i e and receiving upon their outer ends, which pass through the frame I, the ornamental nuts or heads n, the latter and said frame I being removable. The boxesol e, and preferably all of the other boxes above referred to, will each be ornamented with a brass rosette fr, held in place by the screw s and ornamental nut or head f.

The frame I is ornamental in itself and when embodied inthe head or foot frame of a metal bedstead greatly enhances the character thereof. The boxes 7l e, having the recesses j and rear extensions 7e, snugly receive the frame I and allow the latter to be firmly and securely set into the lbed-frame.

The bar-frame II is centrally below the frame I and supports at its upper end the said frame I. The frame II also occupies the extra width of space left below the frame I and between the middle vertical posts F F. The invention is not, however, confined in every part to the use at all times of the bar-frame II.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In and forming a part of the frame of a metal rail or bar bedstead, the boxes at the intersecting points of said'bars or rails, and the boxes i, c, permanently integral with the bed-frame and located at said intersecting IOO points and having the rear integral extensions 7c and outer recesses j, combined with the inclosing frame I secured at its edges within said recesses and against said extensions and being substantially iush with the Vertical plane of the bed-frame; substantially as shown and described.

2. In and forming a part of the frame of a metal rail or bar bedstead, the boxes at the intersecting points of said bars or rails, and the boxes t', e, permanently integral with said substantially as bed-frame and having the integral rearlex-- Signed at New York, in the county of New 3o tensions k, the outer recesses j, the screws carried by said extensions and extending outwardly, and the ornamental nuts on the outer ends of said screws, combined with the inclosing frame I seated in said recesses and against said rear extensions and through York and State of New York, this 31st day of August, A.`D. 1896.

' DAVID FRANK. l-Vitnesses CHAs. C. GILL, E. Jos. BELKNAP. 

